At the University of Birmingham, a ' Lunar Society ' meets every Thursday between 6-8pm to debate and discuss all manner of topics in the Guild bar, from current events to historical precedents.

At Warwick, the canal rises by two locks to Budbrooke Junction ( formerly the junction with the then-independent Warwick and Birmingham Canal ).

At Birmingham dissection was once essential to the teaching of anatomy but since the end of the 1980s the medical school has adopted prosection over dissection.

At the time of the grant, Birmingham lacked an Anglican cathedral, although the parish church later became a cathedral in 1905.

At 18 he joined his uncle's screwmaking business, Nettlefolds ( later part of Guest, Keen and Nettlefolds ) of Birmingham, in which his father had invested.

At age 30 DeBardeleben came to Birmingham and soon acquired a controlling interest in the Red Mountain Iron and Coal Company, which was later renamed the Eureka Mining Company.

An F4 tornado struck from the southwest on Palm Sunday, March 27, 1994 at 10: 55 a. m. At 11: 27 a. m., the National Weather Service of Birmingham issued a tornado warning for northern Calhoun, southeastern Etowah, and southern Cherokee counties.

At age 29 on September 17, 1960 he put his vision into reality with ABC's first NCAA college football broadcast from Birmingham, Alabama, between Alabama Crimson Tide and the Georgia Bulldogs won by Alabama, 21 – 6.

At the same time ( 2010 – 2013 ), line speeds have been and will be increased from Marylebone to Birmingham: £ 250 million is being invested.

At this time, Winwood was living on Atlantic Road in Great Barr, close to the Birmingham music halls where he played.

At the same time, the Birmingham and Derby link with the London and Birmingham Railway in a southwards direction at Hampton-in-Arden, threatened the Midland Counties.

At first the A's did not know whether to make him a pitcher or outfielder, but after deciding on pitcher, he was sent to Leesburg, Florida ( Florida Southern League ) for the 1965 season, then Modesto, California ( California Athletic League ) in 1966, and finally to Birmingham, Alabama ( Southern League ) for two seasons, 1967 and 1968.

At the junction with the B4514, there is a Tesco petrol station and the road enters the city of Birmingham.

At the same time, ITV West's broadcast footprint was expanded to cover North Gloucestershire from the West's Bristol studios, while Herefordshire re-joined Central News West from Birmingham.

At the 26th International Congress of Actuaries, held in Birmingham on 7-12 June 1998, the General Assembly of the International Actuarial Association restructured itself.

At the University of Birmingham Guild of Students ( where she studied ), one of the committee rooms is named " The Amos Room " after her, in acknowledgement of her services to society.

At the time of the augmentation, this was only the second 16 full circle bell peal in the world-St Martin's Church in Birmingham being the first.

At the southern end the terminus is Birmingham Snow Hill station, where Platform 4 was taken out of use to make space for the tram.

At the Birmingham Motor Show in September 1988, Saab premiered the four-door sedan body style with a slightly more aerodynamic nose.

At the end of the 2003 – 04 season, Heskey signed for Birmingham City on a five-year contract for an initial fee of £ 3. 5 million, which could have risen to £ 6. 25 million, and would thus have become Birmingham's most expensive player.

At a roundabout the A435 leaves to the North for Redditch and Birmingham.

At 20: 11 a man with an Irish accent telephoned the Birmingham Post newspaper and said: " There is a bomb planted in the Rotunda and there is a bomb in New Street at the tax office ".

At CIÉ, he led the first major dieselisation programme, which involved the procurement of a fleet of diesel multiple units from AEC of Southall, 94 diesel locomotives ( 60 CIE 001 Class and 34 CIE 201 Class ) from Metropolitan-Vickers and 12 Sulzer-engined diesel locomotives ( CIE 101 Class ) from the Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon Company.

At the beginning of 1940, the first edition of Connolly's Horizon appeared, and this provided a new outlet for Orwell's work as well as new literary contacts.

At first Germany's military moves were brilliantly successful, as in the " blitzkrieg " invasions of Poland ( 1939 ), Norway ( 1940 ), the Low Countries ( 1940 ), and above all the stunningly successful invasion and quick conquest of France in 1940.

* 1940 – World War II: At the Battle of Cape Spartivento, the Royal Navy engages the Regia Marina in the Mediterranean Sea.

At the general election in September 1940, there was a large swing to Labor and the UAP-Country Party coalition lost its majority, continuing in office only because of the support of two independent MPs, Arthur Coles and Alexander Wilson.

At the 1940 Republican National Convention itself, keynote speaker Harold Stassen, the Governor of Minnesota, announced his support for Willkie and became his official floor manager.

At the wedding of Patton's daughter Ruth Ellen ( 1940 ), a couple who knew Patton from Hawaii ( Restarick and Eleanor Jones Withington ) crashed the wedding, and explained they were in the area when they saw the wedding announcement and hoped Patton didn't mind them showing up uninvited.

At the age of 37, he was perceived as a rising star in the Republican Party and frontrunner for the presidential nomination in 1940.

At the same time in early 1940, Hitler had finally decided upon a plan for the invasion of France ; the prospect of seizing bases in France, which were regarded as offering better access to the North Atlantic than Norway, caused many Naval Staff officers to abandon their support for Weserübung.

At a meeting with Hitler on 26 March 1940, Raeder stated he still believed in Weserübung, and wished it to be started as soon as possible.

At a meeting with Hitler in Munich, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, ( 1869 – November 1940 ), and French Prime Minister Édouard Daladier chose diplomacy over war.

At the start of 1940 he was still a first lieutenant but, beginning in 1941, began to receive temporary advancement in grade in the expanding Army Air Forces.

At the beginning of 1940, the Selbstschutz was disbanded and its members transferred to various units of the SS and German police.

At some point, the studio wanted Brian Aherne for the male lead, and Joel McCrea, Madeleine Carroll and Paulette Goddard were under consideration as of July 1940, but in August 1940 Fred MacMurray and Madeleine Carroll were announced as co-stars.

At the end of the summer of 1940, Daniel Mayer was asked by Leon Blum to reconstitute the SFIO ( in ruins because of Paul Faure's defection to the Vichy regime ).

At the height of his influence, in 1940, Joyce had an estimated 6 million regular and 18 million occasional listeners in the United Kingdom.

At the end of 1936, the George F. Lee Coal Co. still worked both the Chauncey mine and breaker, producing 38, 712 tons of coal, but by 1940, the company was bankrupt and in receivership.

At the same time, Glen Rose grew from 1, 050 residents in 1940 to 1, 248 in 1950.

At the outbreak of war, the orchestra was cut from 61 to 35, and then in 1940 to only 24 players.

The mill was the subject of a 1971 World in Action investigation entitled " The Dust At Acre Mill " which revealed how the factory broke the law regarding asbestos-dust control between 1940 – 1970.

# At the Last Port of Call ( dailies and Sundays, June 1938-February 1940 )

At the conclusion of the war, over 167, 000 students, including over 50, 000 pilots, trained in Canada under the program from May 1940 to March 1945.

At Oxford Healey joined the Communist Party in 1937 during the Great Terror but left in 1940 after the fall of France.